Kira Lum (Lumpyplume)

“[I]f the wave practices meditation and realizes she is water, she can collapse and tumble with joy. She may die as a wave, but she will always be alive as water.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, The World We Have: A Buddhist Approach to Peace and Ecology

“Pride's a joke that will make the stranger inside you laugh sooner or later.”
― Stephen King, Los ojos del dragón

“Relearn astonishment.”
― Elias Canetti

“When midnight hushed the Earth, and lonely on the rooftops the night owls seemed to lament in melancholy notes, prolonged to a doleful cry, and then besides the riddling words of seers in ancient days, foreboding sayings made her thrill with fear.”
― Virgil (tr. Robert Fitzgerald)